Folding, wheeled, shopping bag



April 20, 1948. G. SIMONIAN FOLDING, WHEELED, SHOPPING BAG Fi ld Aug; 31, 1946 y 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 IN V EN TOR. G ro/a 5/)?70/7/0/7 Patented ckpr. 20, 1948 n 2,439,992 ti ma infl e HQRHNGB li reialtl I Application August 31, "No. 69 L279 3 Claims. 61; ato s 1f 7 "This invention relates to shopping bags, and di-ore particularly to a vehicula-r shopping"bag. r "objectof the invention is to provide a foldbbl" vehicular shopping "bag which may be not in to occupy a {readily andcorivniently hand carried when it is iri=its folded condition'f otherbbjects*andldvantages of the invention will be apparent from the following description when taken in conjunction with the drawings forming part of this specification, and in which:

Fig. 1 is a view in side elevation of the preferred embodiment of the invention;

Fig. 2 is a view in front elevation partly broken away of the shopping bag of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged view in section taken along line 3-3 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a view in section, taken along the plane of line 3-3 of Fig. 2, showing the shopping bag in its folded condition; and

Fig. 5 is a view in perspective of the preferred embodiment of the invention in its compacted cbndition.

Referring to the drawings for more specific details of the invention, indicates generally a housing having front and rear walls l2 and i4 and side walls l6 and I8. Attached to the outside of the front wall l2 are a carrying handle 2|] and a locking catch 22, while secured to the inside of the wall I2 is a U-shaped-locking bracket 24 having the arms thereof slotted, as at 26. Secured to the side walls [6 and I8 by rivets 28 are a pair of pivotable angle strips 30 supporting a panel 32. The panel 32 has secured to one side thereof a pair of spaced brackets 34 supporting an axle 36 having mounted for rotation thereon a pair of rubber tired wheels 38. A pivotable leg support 40 is also secured to the panel 32, and rotatable fasteners 42 are carried by the panel at each end thereof.

A panel 44 having reinforcing ribs 45 at the outer edges thereof is pivotably secured to the rear wall l4 of the housing ID by hinges 48, and an upper panel 50 having reinforcing ribs 52 is secured to the panel 44 by hinges 54. The panel 44' has a sliding bolt locking means 56 adapted to cooperate with guide means 58 carried by the wall l4 of the housing I U, and the upper panel 50 has a sliding bolt locking means Ell adapted to cooperate with guide means 62 carried by the panel 44. A locking tongue 64 is secured to the outside surface of panel 44 hereinafter disclosed, and the upper portion of panel 50 is apertured as at 66 to provide a handle 68.

A U-shaped stay ill is pivotably secured to the inside surfaces of ribs 52 of panel 55, said stay in being threaded through a peripheral fold of a panel 32 within the housing lfl.

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when theba'g l2 i'sin the vertical position. When groceries 'or the like are placed within the bag 1-2, the weight of the articles is supported by panel 32 which is locked against rotation .by engagement of a fastener 42 within a slot 26 in the bracket 24, as indicated in Fig. 3.

Following removal of the articles from the bag 12, the device may be compacted to the form shown in Figs. 4 and 5 in the following manner: The freely hanging bag 72 is folded or bunched upwardly against the stay 10; the support braces 14 are deflected at their middle pivot point to free them from their locked position; the stay 10 and bag 12 are then pivoted downwardly adjacent the panel 50 into the space between the ribs 52 following the freeing of the bolt of the locking means 60 from the guide means 62 and the freeing of the bolt of the locking means 56 from the guide means 58; panel 50 is then pivoted downwardly against panel 44 so that the ribs 52 and the ribs 46 are adjacently disposed and so that the panels 44 and 50 include therebetween the bag 12; panel 44 is then pivoted downwardly to serve as a closure for the housing It! and the locking tongue 64 is engaged by the locking catch 22; the leg support 40 is folded inwardly adjacent the panel 32 and the fastener 42 is pivoted so that the loop thereof is in alignment with the slot 26 of the locking bracket 24; the panel 32 is rotated to the position shown in Fig. 4 and the fastener 42 is rotated into locking engagement with the locking bracket 24.

While the preferred embodiment of the invention has been shown and described, it is understood that the embodiment shown is subject to modification within the scope of the appended claims.

What I claim is new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

l. A vehicular shopping bag comprising a housing, a pair of wheels supporting said housing, a leg adapted to coact with said wheels for the static support of said housing, a two section panel foldable upon itself pivotably secured to the housing, a stay pivotably secured to the upper edge of the upper panel section, a bag depending from said stay and extending within said housing, means to lock said panel sections in alignment normal to the upper edge of the houstwo section panel ioldable in the center as the top thereof, a bag pivotably secured to the free end of said latter panel and adapted to lie between said panel sections when said sections are folded, a pair of wheels and a pivotable leg support on one side of the reversible panel, means to selectively lock said reversible panel in either of two positions to expose or enclose said wheel side of said panel, means to selectively lock said anel sections in alignment normal to the housing, and means to selectively lock said bag in a vertical open position.

3. A vehicular shopping bag comprising a boxlike housing, a reversible panel as the bottom thereof, a pair of wheels and a pivotable leg support carried on one side of said panel, looking means selectively operable to secure said panel in horizontal position with either side thereof exposed, a panel foldable upon itself in the middle and having one end pivotably se cured to the upper edge of a wall of the housing, a stay pivotably secured to the free end of said foldable panel, a bag having its open end secured to said stay, means to selectively lock said panel sections in alignment normal to the upper edge of said housing, and means to selectively lock said stay in position normal to said panel sections to allow the closed end of said bag to extend downwardly into said housing to contact the side of said reversible panel opposite said wheels.

GERALD SIMONIAN.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

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